BEOR

be'-or (be`or, "destroyer"(?)):

(1) Father of Bela, the first king of Edom (Genesis 36:32 1 Chronicles 1:43).

(2) The father of the seer Balaam (Numbers 22:5; Numbers 24:3, 15; 31:8 Deuteronomy 23:4 Joshua 13:22; Joshua 24:9, omitted in Septuagint; Micah 6:5 2 Peter 2:15, the King James Version and the Revised Version, margin "Bosor").